Saul Perlmutter

Quick Facts

Full Name	Saul Perlmutter
Occupation	Physicist
Date Of Birth	Sep 22, 1959(1959-09-22)
Age	65
Birthplace	Champaign–Urbana metropolitan area
Country	United States
Birth City	Illinois
Horoscope	Virgo

Saul Perlmutter Biography

Saul Perlmutter is one of the most popular and richest Physicist who was born on September 22, 1959 in Champaign–Urbana metropolitan area, Illinois, United States.

Saul Perlmutter (born September 22, 1959) is a U.S. astrophysicist at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and a professor of physics at the University of California, Berkeley. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, and was elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 2003. He is also a member of the National Academy of Sciences. Perlmutter shared the 2006 Shaw Prize in Astronomy, the 2011 Nobel Prize in Physics, and the 2015 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics with Brian P. Schmidt and Adam Riess for providing evidence that the expansion of the universe is accelerating.

Perlmutter spent his childhood in the Mount Airy neighborhood of Philadelphia. He went to school in nearby Germantown; first Greene Street Friends School for the elementary grades, followed by Germantown Friends School for grades 7 through 12. He graduated with an AB in physics from Harvard magna cum laude in 1981 and received his PhD in physics from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1986. Perlmutter’s PhD thesis titled “An Astrometric Search for a Stellar Companion to the Sun” described the development and use of an automated telescope to search for Nemesis candidates under Richard A. Muller. At the same time, he was using this telescope to search for Nemesis and supernovae, which would lead him to his award-winning work in cosmology. Perlmutter attributes the idea for an automated supernova search to Luis Alvarez, a 1968 Nobel laureate, who shared his idea with Perlmutter’s research adviser.

Saul Perlmutter Net Worth

Saul Perlmutter is one of the richest Physicist from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Saul Perlmutter 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Saul Perlmutter has two sisters: Shira Perlmutter (b. 1956), a lawyer, and Tova Perlmutter (b. 1967), a nonprofit executive. He is married to Laura Nelson, an anthropologist at University of California, Berkeley, and has one daughter, Noa.

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Perlmutter shared the 2011 Nobel Prize in Physics with Riess and Schmidt. The Nobel Prize includes a SEK 10 million cash award (approximately US$1.5 million). Perlmutter received one-half of the cash prize, while Riess and Schmidt shared the other half.

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Scott Ranked on the list of most popular Physicist. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. Saul Perlmutter celebrates birthday on September 22 of every year.

Perlmutter, Schmidt, Riess and their teams shared the 2015 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics with $3 million to be split among them.